New sub (mistake) photos.

[shawl@torchlake.com (Jonathan Shawl)]

You can now see photos of my first dry sub (mistake) at...
http://www.nwcis.com/submarine/
Look at "Shark Boat photos"
In photo 1 is is out by the road for sale, I had a couple of bites on it
for just under a thousand, but there wives said "no way!"
In photo 2 my brother is in the sub and I am on the dock. Some friends
came over that day to go swimming and to test the sub the first time. It
was still not finished yet and was still too light. We took turns, 1 got
inside and 4 others would stand on top to submerge it. It was a fun day!

In photo 3 I'm on the con and a friend is in the engine room. Local
lake.
In photo 4 you can see it wouldn't take much forward motion to put the
nose under.
In photo 5 we sail off into the sunset for the last time. :-(
In photo 6 note the pile of "calibrated" ballast rocks in the lower
right corner.
In photos 2 and 6 it is a sub, in all others it is a boat.
I was not happy when it crushed and I didn't take any photos of it. The
entire rear cone went flat! I used air pressure inside and a big hammer
to get it close to round again, then I took out most of the ballast
weight and made it into a boat, It would turn a lot of heads going down
the lake as a boat! I'm the one with short hair in photo 3, back in my
early 20's. Motoring around on the surface was fun with the bow plowing
under, trough the water like a real sub! That did it, it was time for me
to build a "real" sub. I first thought I would like to make one a lot
like Gary's, long and fast. I also wanted to make something I could see
the bottom with and my currant design won out. As far as what happened
to the shark boat. I traded it to a friend that wanted to make a wet sub
for diving. He took it all apart and then never finished it, later I
ended up going back and getting all the pieces.
So it still exists in the parts pile out back. Im not sure if it's still
for sale, but if there is any interest out there in putting it back
together as a boat or wet sub? Maybe it would even make a good semi wet
sub? If so talk to me.
Also before you take my photos for your own site please ask me first,
thanks. Also please don't just link to them.
If any one has ideas or photos they would like to share on my site let
me know, maybe we can trade some sub photos or sub site ideas? What
would you like to see on my site? Also I am willing to trade links. I
have more stuff it's just not up yet.
shawl@torchlake.com

Jon Shawl